The next set of fins I tried was the Captain Nemo fins. This was my first foray into the fiberglass fins which are supposed to be better than the plastic fins. How the various fins materials transfer energy to the water is kind of unknown to me. The nemos looked way cooler then the plastic […]

>Cressi sells two models of plastic freedive fins, the HF and the LD. The HF stands for “hard fin” and the LD stands for “long distance”. I originally tried the HF but as a beginner I found it too stiff. I should have switched to the LD but I tried the Riffe fin instead. I […]

Riffe Silent hunter fins were the second long freedive fins I have owned. They are plastic and like anything riffe, relatively expensive. The fins are large and soft which I feel is better starting off. I originally had cressi gara HF but they felt like I had a boards strapped to my feet so I […]

Great November Diving Some decent weather and decent fish this week. Went out Wednesday with Catherine and Andy, and visibility was pretty good. We dove a lot of shallower stuff due to the ripping current. Muttons in Hawks Channel Mutton snappers are here again, we shot 4 or 5 of them. Andy had the biggest […]

Finally some clear water, blue water has pushed in onto the reef and Catherine and I have gone out in it. Two half day trips this week, once just me and her and one time Andy was able to come with us. All the extra daylight in the summer, allows for leaving at one in […]

Well, Brian is visiting and he brought my new gun. The water and wind have totally sucked pretty much all month. I got out a couple days in the middle of the month but it has now been windy for like 2 weeks straight. Not like 15 knots windy, where you can still go but […]

Went out on the water for a couple days this week. My friend Brian is visiting and was lucky on the weather, after the week or so of very windy weather, the wind died the days after he got here. He brought me a new gun but I will talk about that later. We had […]

Well we finally got a little break in the weather and and was able to go out for a half day. The rain finally stopped around 1pm and we where headed out by 2pm. Kind of awesome to have a boat in a slip in Key West. The relatively short drive to the fishing grounds […]

Floats lines are great, don’t let anyone tell you different. I learned about float lines by reading about them on spearboard. No one I met in real life used a float line, so it I had to learn about it on my own. Anyways something I noticed pretty early on is that if you shoot […]

Hurricane Gustav just went past, and there are possibly 2 other hurricanes on their way into my area. Although it doesn’t look like we will be hit directly with any of the current storms, we have been having winds up to 40 knots. I really don’t think there will be much spear fishing for awhile, […]